Title: A Decade Experience in Brain Dead Maintenance unit ‘A Stanlean Soujourn’
Authors: Satish Logidasan, Arulraj Panchatcharam, Karthik Prakasam
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v5i8.179
Abstract
Brain death diagnosis, certification and maintenance of potential organ donors had always courted confusion, ambiguity and controversy. But with more than 5 million people with end organ failure awaiting organ donation in India, this area of medicine and critical care which remained grey for a long period, became largely debated and discussed in recent times. While many facts had been made clear, some confusions and controversies still exists. In this article we look back on our journey of almost a decade with more than 60 cases of brain dead donors. we share our difficulties be it clinical, logistical or legal and how we managed critical issues in various aspects of brain death certification and donor management and how in the process devised our institutional protocol
Keywords: brain death, apnoea test, RADOPS protocol, T4 protocol.
